PHILADELPHIA - Michael Green, 33, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced today to 248 months in prison, including a 60-month mandatory minimum prison term, for the armed carjacking of three men on December 5, 2012. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Court Judge R. Barclay Surrick ordered five years of supervised release and a $200 special assessment.
Judge Surrick ordered Green to serve this sentence partially consecutively to a 180-month federal sentence Green is already serving for his earlier conviction in a multi-year drug trafficking conspiracy.
On the night of December 5, 2012, Green and an accomplice disguised themselves as police officers, with fake police clothing, badges and guns. Using fake police lights, Green and his accomplice pulled over three men who were returning from a funeral in a Chevrolet Silverado pick-up truck, claimed to be police officers, and then carjacked the victims at gunpoint. After handcuffing the three men and forcing them into the back seat of the truck, Green pistol-whipped the victims and threatened to kill them. The three victims managed to escape by leaping from the moving vehicle, with one of them suffering serious injuries in the process.
Green was arrested after the victims located and identified the car Green and his accomplice had used to pull them over. A search warrant revealed that Green had rented the car in his own name, and had left his wallet with his identification and credit cards as well as his cell phones inside the car. On July 23, 2014, a federal jury found Green guilty of carjacking, and using a firearm during a crime of violence.
The case was investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and Homeland Security Investigations and was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys V. Paige Pratter and Mark S. Miller.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
